looking for a file format for time series data other software can easily consume

2017-10-30 Thread Dan Hitt
I plan to produce some time series data and i would like it to be in a form that makes it easy or effortless for pre-existing programs to plot or even process further. The data would consist of a few hundred to a few thousand time points, and for each time point there would be a half-dozen to a do

Weird font dots in terminal

2017-10-30 Thread Bhasker C V
Hi, I am using debian buster. I have been using rxvt-unicode with Gohu font happily until the latest update. The terminal window now shows extra pixels around the characters. Attached is screenshot. I have run fc-cache both as root and also as user and re-started the laptop too. Attached is

HOWTO: Setup persistent RDP sessions

2017-10-30 Thread Hörmetjan Yiltiz
Hey all, In an Debian server (running Debiwith XFCE4), I am running X11vnc as a RDP server so people can connect to it from using Windows Remote Desktop (either from Windows or OSX). My current configuration creates a new Xfce4 session for each client-server; if Alice connects to the server from H

Re: Feature suggestion re package metadata

2017-10-30 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sun, 29 Oct 2017, Mark Summerfield wrote: > ISTM that subcategories or some other finer-grained classification > would be a real help. You're probably looking for debtags. For example, if I wanted something with a shell interface which was implemented in C++: aptitude search '?tag(implemented

Re: Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed?

2017-10-30 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 30 Oct 2017 23:13:33 +1300 Richard Hector wrote: > On 30/10/17 15:46, Celejar wrote: > > On Sun, 29 Oct 2017 08:28:46 -0400 > > The Wanderer wrote: > > > >> On 2017-10-29 at 07:49, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > >> > >>> Celejar wrote on 10/24/17 15:09: > >>> > On Tue, 24 Oct 2017 08:5

Re: [WARNING] Intel Skylake/Kaby Lake processors: broken hyper-threading

2017-10-30 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 10/29/2017 01:17 AM, none wrote: So is there an example ocaml code that can trigger the bug ? Debian Linux reveals Intel Skylake and Kaby Lake processors have broken hyper-threading http://www.zdnet.com/article/debian-linux-reveals-intel-skylake-kaby-lake-processors-have-broken-hyper-thre

Backporting latest WPA patches to older Debian v. 7, 6?

2017-10-30 Thread Pavel
Hello, I have few systems with antique Debian versions: early Wheezy and even Squeeze. Now, due to the hysteria about the recent wi-fi crack (https://www.krackattacks.com), patch time comes... Here is the question: does it seem feasible to backport the current wpa-supplicant (v. 2.4?) to these o

Re: Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed?

2017-10-30 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote on 10/30/17 15:54: > Richard Hector wrote on 10/30/17 11:13: > >> imagemagick-6.q16 Provides: imagemagick, but not a specific version >> >> cups-filters Depends: imagemagick (>= 6.4~) >> >> The real imagemagick package is at 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-11+deb9u1 (on my >> machine anyway

Re: Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed?

2017-10-30 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Richard Hector wrote on 10/30/17 11:13: > imagemagick-6.q16 Provides: imagemagick, but not a specific version > > cups-filters Depends: imagemagick (>= 6.4~) > > The real imagemagick package is at 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-11+deb9u1 (on my > machine anyway), which satisifies the cups-filters dependency. >

Re: React on change of arp table entry

2017-10-30 Thread Sven Hartge
George Shuklin wrote: > It there any way to react on changes in arp table (except for constant > polling)? I want to reset all TCP connection with directly connected > IP which have changed MAC address. I google a lot but found none. > Why this is needed: we have corosync/pacemaker HA cluster wh

React on change of arp table entry

2017-10-30 Thread George Shuklin
Hello, everyone. It there any way to react on changes in arp table (except for constant polling)? I want to reset all TCP connection with directly connected IP which have changed MAC address. I google a lot but found none. Why this is needed: we have corosync/pacemaker HA cluster which moves

Re: Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed?

2017-10-30 Thread Richard Hector
On 30/10/17 15:46, Celejar wrote: > On Sun, 29 Oct 2017 08:28:46 -0400 > The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2017-10-29 at 07:49, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: >> >>> Celejar wrote on 10/24/17 15:09: >>> On Tue, 24 Oct 2017 08:52:46 +0200 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > I forgot that you showed